On Jan 23, 2008 1:41 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
99.9999% is harder since groups of say 10K are going to have more of an impact.
If my maths is right, 99.9999% of the world's populations leaves about 6,500 people that we can not cater to - a group of 10K that only speak one language would require us to cater for their language.
If Greg actually meant 99.999%, which his later email would suggestion, then it's 65,000, which is slightly more doable.
I did mean five 9s, yes... it's just a little too easy to keep pounding the key. ;)
But the threshold was arbitrary... I'd picked a number to represent the notion of "an overwhelmingly vast majority".
If you could answer the question for another largish percentage it would still be interesting.